A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

A slingshot from this delightful collection is awarded each year to someone who has "pulled metaphorical slings in favor of the weak and marginalized."

This enormous storm barrier is one of the largest moving structures on Earth, with each arm taller than the Washington Monument.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.